Excerpt from Miscellaneous Poems: Moral, Religious, and Sentimental

As some of my works are about to be published, I thought, without designing to write a preface, that it might be best to say a few words, by way of apology, for the similarity of matter apparent in many of the pieces. Some of them were written under the pressure of affliction, in my own family, and some at the request of different individuals, on the death of relatives dear to them, the subjects being similar, of course no great diversity of matter could be expected in them, and yet it has been thought best to publish most of the pieces of this description, for the satisfaction of those by whose request they were written, since many of them have become subscribers for the work.

In making a selection of my works for the press, I have been governed, to some extent, by the previous demand for manuscript copies of different poems, and an observation of individual preferences, but chiefly by a desire to present as great a variety of matter, in as many different forms of composition as practicable, taking my works as they are.

It was not my expectation, until within a very short period, that my works, or at least that many of them, would ever be published.

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